Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology Office: 919-513-2705

NORA HAENN Curriculum Vitae

Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology Office: 919-513-2705

North Carolina State University Fax: 919-515-2610

P.O. Box 8107 E-mail:

Raleigh, NC 27695 Web: www4.ncsu.edu/~nmhaenn

Education: Ph.D., Anthropology, minor Population Studies, Indiana Univ., 1998

M.A., Anthropology, Indiana Univ., Bloomington, 1994

B.A., cum laude, in cursu honorum, Philosophy, Fordham Univ., 1989

Positions Held: Associate Professor, North Carolina State University, 2007-present

Associate Professor, Arizona State Univerity, 2005-2007

Assistant Professor, Arizona State University, 1999-2005

Assistant Editor for Reviews, American Ethnologist, 1998-1999

Visiting Assistant Professor, Western Carolina University, 1997-98

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Haenn, N. (in process) Perfect Travelers: How International Migration Happened to a Mexican Family and

their Community.

Haenn, N. 2005 Fields of Power, Forests of Discontent: Culture, Conservation, and the State in

Mexico, University of Arizona Press.

Articles accepted:

Haenn, Nora (accepted) “The Middle-Class Anthropologist: Social Dramas, and Blurred Identity Boundaries

and their Environmental Consequences in Mexican Conservation.” Current Anthropology

Peer Reviewed Articles (*denotes student co-author)

Navarro Olmedo, S.*, N. Haenn, B. Schmook, and C. Radel (early view online)“The Legacy of Mexico’s

Agrarian Counter-Reforms: Reinforcing Social Hierarchies in Calakmul, Campeche” Journal of

Agrarian Change.

Haenn, N., B. Schmook, Y. Reyes Martínez,* and S. Calmé (2014) “Conservation Biology as Hybrid

Knowledge: Local Experts and Bureaucracies in Southern Mexico” Conservation Biology

28(4):951-958

Haenn, N., E. Olson, J. Martinez-Reyes, and L. Durand (2014) “Between Capitalism, the State, and

the Grassroots: Mexico’s Contribution to a Global Conservation Debate” Conservation and Society.

12(2):111-119.

Haenn, N., B. Schmook, Y. Reyes Martínez* and S. Calmé (2014) “A Cultural Consensus Regarding

the King Vulture?: Preliminary Findings and their Application to Mexican Conservation”

Ethnobiology and Conservation 3(1): 1-22.

McCoy, R.* and N. Haenn (2013) ‘Gentlemen-Type Rules’ and ‘Back Room Deals’ in Public Participation:

Natural Resource Management and a Fractured State in North Carolina’ Journal of Political Ecology

20: 444-459

Shoreman, E.* and N. Haenn (2009) Regulation, Conservation, and Collaboration: Ecological Anthropology in

the Mississippi Delta. Human Ecology 37: 95-107.

Haenn, N. (2006) The Changing and Enduring Ejido: A State and Regional Examination of Mexico’s Land

Tenure Counter-Reforms. Land Use Policy 23:136-146.

Haenn, N. (2004) New Rural Poverty: The Tangled Web of Environmental Protection and Economic

Aid in Southern Mexico. Journal on Poverty. 8(4):97-117. [Reprinted 2004 in Poverty and Inequality

in the Latin American-U.S. Borderlands :Implications of U.S. Interventions,pp. 97-117, K. Kilty and E.

Segal, eds. New York: Haworth Press.]

Haenn, N. (2003) “Risking Environmental Justice: Culture, Conservation, and Governance at Calakmul,

Mexico” in Social Justice in Latin America. Susan Eckstein and Timothy Wickham-Crawley, eds.,

pp.81-101. New York: Routledge Press.

Haenn, N. (2002) “Nature Regimes in Southern Mexico: A History of Power and Environment” Ethnology

41(1):1-26.

Haenn, N. (2000) “’Biodiversity is Diversity in Use’: Community-based Conservation in the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve” in América Verde. Arlington, VA: The Nature Conservancy. [Spanish language

version published 2001]

Haenn, N. (1999) “Working Forests: Conservation and Conflict in Tropical Mexico” in Delaware Review of Latin American Studies. 1(1): http://www.udel.edu/LASP/vol1Haenn.html

Haenn, N. (1999) "The Power of Environmental Knowledge: Ethnoecology and Environmental Conflicts in

Mexican Conservation" in Human Ecology. 27(3): 477-491.

Haenn, N. (1999) "Community Formation in Frontier Mexico: Accepting and Rejecting Migrants," in Human

Organization. 58(1):36-43.

Book Chapters/Invited Publications:

Haenn,N. 2011 “Who’s Got the Money Now?: Conservation-Development Meets the Nueva Ruralidad in Southern Mexico” in H. Kopnina and E. Shoreman, eds. Environmental Anthropology Today,

Routledge Press.

Haenn, N. 2010 “A Sustaining Conservation for Mexico?” in International Handbook of

Environmental Sociology. G. Woodgate and M. Redclift, eds. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, Pub.

Haenn, N. 2002 Commentary on Atran et al. “Folkecology, cultural epidemiology, and the spirit of the commons,” Current Anthropology 43(3):442-3.

Haenn, N. 2000 “Renovating Ecology@ review article in American Ethnologist. 27(3):736-745.

Haenn, N. 1994 "A New Tourist, A New Environment: Can Ecotourism Deliver?" Trends. 31(2).

Guest Co-editor

Haenn, N. and D. Casagrande, eds. 2007 “Special Section: Anthropology and Environmental Policy” Human

Organization 66(2).

Text Books

N. Haenn, R. Wilk, and A. Harnish, eds. (in press) Environment in Anthropology: Readings in Culture,

Nature, and Sustainable Living, 2nd ed. New York: New York University Press.

N. Haenn and E. Johnson 2009 The Teaching Road Map: A Pocket Guide for New Teachers. Lanham, MD:

Rowman & Littlefield Press.

Haenn, N. and Wilk, R., eds. 2005 Environment in Anthropology: Readings in Culture, Nature, and

Sustainable Living. New York: New York University Press.

Book Reviews:

Haenn, N. 2012 Review of Andrew Mathews Instituting Nature: Authority, Expertise, and Power in Mexican

Forests in Human Ecology. Published online 3 July 2012.

Haenn, N. 2008 Review of Mirjam A.F. Ros-Tonen, editor with Heleen van den Hombergh and Annelies

Zoomer, Partnerships in Sustainable Forest Resource Management: Learning from Latin America in

Estudios Interdisciplinarios de America Latina y el Caribe 19(1)

Haenn, N. 2007 Review of Christine Kovic’s Mayan Voices for Human Rights: Displaced Catholics in

Highland Chiapas in PoLAR: The Political and Legal Anthropology Review 30(2):333-335.

Haenn, N. 2007 Review of Melissa Checker’s Polluted Promises:Environmental Racism and the Search for

Justice in a Southern Town in American Anthropologist. 109(1):206-7.

Haenn, N. 2006 Review of Cori Hayden’s When Nature Goes Public: The Making and Unmaking of

Bioprospecting in Mexico in Journal of Latin American Anthropology 11(2):449-451.

Haenn N. 2000 Review of Roderick Neumann’s Imposing Wilderness: Struggles over Livelihood and Nature

Preservation in Africa. In Human Ecology. 28(3):485-488

Haenn, N. 1999 Review of Neil Harvey's The Chiapas Rebellion: The Struggle for Land and Democracy in

American Ethnologist. 26(3):752-753.

Haenn, N. 1998 Review of Robert Carlsen's The War for the Heart & Soul of a Highland Maya Town in

American Anthropologist 100(3):818-819.

Haenn, N. 1998 Review of Kay Milton's Environmentalism and Cultural Theory: Exploring the Role of

Anthropology in Environmental Discourse in American Anthropologist 100(1):211.

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

Grants:

2013: National Humanities Center Fellowship (denied)

2013: North Carolina State University, College of Humanities and Social Science for “International Migration

After the Great Recession” (PI, $7,500)

2011: North Carolina State University, College of Humanities and Social Science for “Bosses and Friends,

Citizens and Foreigners: An Examination of Employers’ Dispositions to their Immigrant Workers” (Co-

PI, $4,000)

2011: National Science Foundation, Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) for “Genetic Engineering and Society: The Case of Transgenic Pests” (Co-PI, $3.3 million for 2011-2014)

2010: National Science Foundation for “Effects of International Migration on Land Use and Conservation in

Mexico” (Principal Investigator, BCS 0957354, $63,452 for 2010)

2009: Dept. of State, Fulbright-García Robles Fellowship for “Effects of International Migration on Land Use

and Conservation Planning in Tropical Mexico” (Principal Investigator, for academic year 2009-10)

2005: ASU, Institute of Social Science Research, for “Effects of Cultural Diversity on Management of Scarce

Natural Resources” (Co-Principal Investigator with Eric Keys, Ph.D. $8,330 for 2005)

2003: ASU, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Faculty Grant in Aid program for “Zapatista Impacts on

Ethnic Constructions in Southern Mexico” (Principal Investigator, $6,961 for 2004)

2001: National Science Foundation for AEffects of Local Political Hierarchies on Colonization of Mexico's

Southern Frontier@ (Principal Investigator, BCS 1193739, $28,000 for 2001-2002)

2000: Mellon Foundation Fellowship in Anthropology and Demography, University of North Carolina,

Carolina Population Center, for training and multi-disciplinary collaboration ($40,000 for

2000-01)

1996: Dissertation Year Fellowship, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana U., for dissertation writing

($10,000, 1996-97)

1994: Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthrpoological Research, for dissertation research ($4,500, 1994-95)

1994: Fulbright Institute for International Education, for dissertation research ($12,000,1994-95)

1994: Dissertation Year Research Incentive Grant (declined), Indiana U. ($10,000, 1994-95)

1994: Overseas Conference Travel Grant, Indiana U., for presentation at international conference

1993: Summer Research Award, Indiana U., pre-dissertation fellowship for preliminary research

1993: Pre-Dissertation Travel Support, Indiana U., grant to support preliminary doctoral research

1993: Latin American Fellowship, Indiana Federation of Clubs, supports research in Latin America

1992: MacArthur Scholar, Indiana U., for participation in a year long interdisciplinary seminar at the Indiana Center on Global Change and World Peace (1992-93)

1991: Skomp Fellow, Indiana U., for course work during the academic year (1991-92)

Honors:

2007 Fellow, the Society for Applied Anthropology

2005 ASU Centennial Professorship for excellence in undergraduate education (nominated)

2004 ASU Centennial Professorship for excellence in undergraduate education (nominated)

2003 Anthropology and Environment Junior Scholar Award, runner-up for outstanding scholarship as evidenced in the article “Nature Regimes in Southern Mexico: A History of Power and Environment”

ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS

Invited Presentations:

2015 “Mexican Society: Points to Consider in Outreach to NC Latinos” University of Noth Carolina, Center

for International Understanding, Latino Initiatives program.

2015 “Identidades y Conservación en el sureste de México”. El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR),

Chetumal, Mexico.

2014 “The Middle-Class Conservationist: Power, Marginality, and Conservation Career Paths in Mexico”

International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands.

2014 "Conservation Science as Hybrid Knowledge: Social Class and The Transformation of Local

Environmental Expertise in Calakmul, Mexico" CIMMYT: International Maize and Wheat

Improvement Center, Mexico City.

2013 “GM Debates and Globalization’s Challenges to Communication” Fulbright Fellows Global Food Security

Seminar, NCSU

2013 “The Middle-Class Conservationist: Power, Marginality, and Conservation Career Paths in Mexico” Dept.

of Forestry and Environmental Resources, NCSU

2012 “New Migration and Old U.S.-Mexico Ties” NCSU Office of International Affairs, Global Issues Seminar

2011 “Methodologies for Nature-Society Research” Dimensions of Political Ecology, University of Kentucky, Lexington.

2010 “Experiencias de los programas doctorales en el extranjero” El Colegio de la Frontera Sur,

Chetumal, Mexico

2009 “Metodologias cualitativas en el campo” ECOSUR’ El Colegio de la Frontera Sur,

Chetumal, Mexico

2007 “ Cultural Difference and Green Democracies: Planning for Sustainability,”Global Institute of

Sustainability, Arizona State University

2007 “Lessons for a Green Democracy from Southern Mexico,” Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, North

Carolina State University.

2006 “Why Neoliberalism Didn’t End the Ejido and How it Might Yet,” Center for Latin American Studies,

University of Arizona

2005 “Un bosque local, un recurso nacional: Cambios al Art. 27 en México,” El Colegio de la Frontera Sur,

Chetumal, Mexico

2004 “A Local Forest, A National Resource: Scale and Mexico=s Counter-Reforms,” Dept. of Geography,

Arizona State University

2004 “A Local Forest, A National Resource: Peasant and State Perspectives on Mexico’s Counter-Reforms,”

School of Forestry and Environmental Sciences, Working Group in Social Ecology, Yale University

2004 “Ambivalent Justice: The State and Land Tenure in Southern Mexico,” School of Justice Studies, ASU

2004 “Community Changes in South Phoenix,@ presentation to undergraduate class ALearning from South

Phoenix,” ASU West

2003 “Examining Community-Based Conservation from Recipients’ Perspectives,” presentation to graduate

class, ASociety and Environment,@ School of Forestry and Environmental Sciences, Yale University

2003 “Talking About Development (NOT Ecology) With and To South Phoenix Residents,” All Scientists’

Meeting, CAP LTER, Tempe, AZ

2003 “Environmental Protection or Poverty Relief? Culture and Conflicting Policies in Southern Mexico,” Dept.

of Sociology and Anthropology, North Carolina State University

2002 “How Not to Talk about Ecology and Other Topics in South Phoenix,” Interdisciplinary Faculty Land Use

Seminar, CAP LTER, Tempe, AZ

2002 “Cambios en Migración y Tenencia de la Tierra en Calakmul,” El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Chetumal,

Mexico

2001 “Ecología y Política en Calakmul: El Papel Cambiante de los Recursos Naturales en la Gestión Gubernamental,” El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Chetumal, Mexico

2001 “A Conversation on Mexican Tropical Conservation,” Department of Anthro., Univ. of North Carolina

2000 “How Might Theories of International Migration Contribute to Studies of RuraltoRural Migration? Exploration of a Mexican Case,” Carolina Population Center, Univ. of North Carolina

2000 “A Politicized Environment: Government-Farmer Relations in Southern Mexico,” Department of

Anthropology, Univ. of Kentucky

1999 "Ecology Politics in Mexico: Conservation and Government-Farmer Relations," Center for Latin

American and Caribbean Studies, Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN

1996 "Creating Communities in Frontier Campeche, Mexico: Ethnicity, Family and Political-Economy in Migration." Population Institute for Research and Training, Indiana Univ, Bloomington, IN

Conference Panels Organized:

2008 “Rappaport Prize Panel” 107th annual Meetings of Am. Anthro. Assoc., San Francisco, CA [organized]

2007 “Rappaport Prize Panel” 106th annual Meetings of Am. Anthro. Assoc., Washington, D.C. [organized]

2007 “Cultural Knowledge, Conservation Knowledge: Categories, Power, and Flows” 106th annual Meetings

of Am. Anthro. Assoc., Washington, D.C. [organized and chaired]

2006 “Today’s Ecological Anthropology: Perspectives on the State of the Field,” Invited Session to 105th annual Meetings of Am. Anthro. Assoc, San Jose, CA [co-organized and co-chaired]

2004 “Rural Property Rights in an Era of Globalization,” 25th International Congress of the Latin America Studies Association, Las Vegas, NV [organized and chaired]

2003 “Human-Environment Interactions in the Mexican-Guatemalan Selva,” 24th International Congress of

the Latin America Studies Association, Dallas, TX [organized and chaired]

2000 “Beyond Politics, Beyond Migration: Revisiting Causal Explanations for Migration,” 99th Annual Meetings of Am. Anthro. Assoc, San Francisco, CA [co-organized and co-chaired]

2000 “Calakmul at a Crossroads: Constructing a Culture Region and a Research Site,” XXII Congress of Latin American Studies Association, Miami, FL [co-organized and chaired]

1998 "Reproducing 'Maya': Reassessing Culture and Transformation in Mesoamerica," 97th Annual Meetings of Am. Anthro. Assoc, Philadelphia, PA [co-organized and co-chaired]

Academic Conference Presentations: (* denotes student collaborator)

2015 “Cell Phone Spouse: Technology, Migration and Changing Families in southern Mexico.” Society for

Economic Anthropology, Lexington, KY.

2014 “Bosses & Friends? An examination of Employers’ Dispositions to their Immigrant Workers”

N. Haenn and M. Crowley Annual Meeting, Southern Sociological Society, Charlotte, NC

2014 “Do Remittances Benefit Rural Mexican Communities” M. Patel* and Nora Haenn 74th Annual Meeting of Society for Applied Anthropology, Albuquerque, New Mexico